Devising: Day 3

Today was another productive day, we managed to set our beginning scene completely which is shown below. We feel it gives a proper sense of fear to the audience as we can not be seen throughout. Obviously it will have a greater affect live than it does on the video. My character, Finn, remains silent for the whole scene, so I wanted to create more tension by responding with slow footsteps and a sniffle before I hit the floor with a whip, giving the scene a break whilst I can manoeuvre into the audience and get close to allow them to feel part if out performance. We also decided to leave a silence before the gun shot is heard to play on the audience more. Possibly getting them to think that everything is fine or maybe feeling a tension build up inside, in order for the shot to have a greater feeling of shock and hopefully making the audience jump out of their seats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8os4jhpC10o

Afterwards, we went on to try and set the scene where Finn and Tess meet and fall in love. This scene was difficult to set as we originally planned for them to meet by a dumpster when disposing a body. But realised that it wouldn't go at all and not fit in the production, it lacked romance so we decided that our characters should meet in a 1930's sleep easy, as the American government had banned alcohol during the prohibition from 1920-33. This made the scene a little more romantic and perhaps allowed us to show off outr knowledge of the time period  more.  Our gang comes to the door of the sleep easy  and enters . Our author will also play the narrator  and be present in the scenes so our story can change as we go along. We  mime out a conversation but Finn is gazing upon the girl at the bar. The men try to shake him off  but he prepares himself  and as he turns around the girl  falls on a spilt  drink into his arms where they meet for the first time.  We found divisingt this scene difficult as we didn't want to  make it cheesy of cringey. But at the moment we are happy with what whe have. We need I cominue on but must make sure we do not rush to get our production finishe and make sure that what we have is quality all the way through.